Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Lattimore, as OWI chief in the Pacific, accompanied Henry Wallace to China, Jack Stachel, a top Communist functionary, "advised me to consider Owen Lattimore as a Communist. To me, that meant to treat as authoritative anything that he said...
...July 1, Donaldson announced, delivery of mail in all U.S. city residential areas will be cut to once a day; Saturday deliveries in business districts will be sliced by one; pickup of mail from street boxes will stop before 8:30 at night. The decree also meant that most Americans would get their mail later in the day, since most night sorting would be eliminated...
Translated, this meant that Gordon Levoy, film producer, attorney and a founder of Republic Pictures Corp., had gotten back his original investment on a venture in which movie men had expected him to lose his shirt. More than that, by making 52 movie shorts (15 minutes) for use on television, Levoy now stood to net an estimated...
When the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by two of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten," convicted two years ago for contempt of Congress, the decision (TIME, April 24) meant that the other eight would also have to start serving their prison terms. Last week, readers of the Hollywood Reporter noted one repercussion in the classified...
...poor publicity it has received at all stages. First, it was consistently advertised as a messenger service, causing a lot of misunderstanding. Second, there was no notification sent to many people who had been fined, except that the worst offenders were called in for conferences at the library. This meant that offenders who might have become more punctual if they knew they were being fined, were in the dark until term bills came...